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From: rick@tekfdi.UUCP (Rick Wilson)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine (Honest!)
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 23:27:05 EST
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Summary: 


There is already at least one patent issued for a motor whose only
power source is a permanent magnet.  It was written up a couple 3
years ago in, I believe, Popular Science.

Think about it.  There really is a lot of energy in a permanent magnet.
One little magnet you pull off the bottom of a lady bug that's holding
a shopping list to your refrigerator door will pick up a hell of a lot
of nails (one at a time) before it wears out.  I have never actually
witnessed one of these magnets show any signs of wearing out, though
I suppose they could.

Here's the touchy part.  Isn't that energy already in the material
before it's made into a magnet?  It's all in the atoms/molecules.
All you do to make a magnet out of it is to align the atoms/molecules
so they all face the same way.

Even water is electromagnetically polar.  The molecules just move
around too easily for a whole ice cube to stay polarized.

Now, how much enery does it take to align the atoms/molecules?
Does it take more than you can get out of a magnet before it wears out?
I don't know.  Someone must.  Someone tell us.

Does this make sense at all?  Let's remember how many brilliant
inventors of the past got laughed out of town before they got rich,
and give this some serious thought.


Rick Wilson
Beaverton, Oregon
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